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wsothibh bjlib(d!limhair 1 salisbury n c tuesday september 16 1823 no 171 iy success had acquired for himâ€”hav ing been in old age beaten and distanc ed by the pride of virginia that matchless courser the jefferson still he was unquestionably a horse of no mean prowess the friend of the old adams however attributed the defeat which he received at the hands of the jefferson to bad keeping and threw the blame on one of his grooms na med hamilton but wholly without au thority for the jefferson was evident ly his superior but jockies you know are fruitful in excuses when ill fortune attends their nags the high blood of the adams seems to have been more sanguinely relied on than either his figure or his previous per formances for he is an obese st ut buttocked animal and his excellence in racidg partakes not of downright turf running such as we now speak of but rather oi the light airy ambling of the p>-gasus breed it is with difficulty he can be kept in the track so much is he addicted to bolting he displayed his propensity in this way in the vear 1807 when running against some horses called the republican over the course called the senate he suddenly reareu plunged and kicked up â€” threw off his rider one otis whom he re ! peatedly stamped and forthwith dash ! cd into a rich green clover field that bordered the margin of the course i where he has ever since remained grazing on the fat ofthe land his sire was also veiiemently addicted to this practice of bolting the adams has been frequently sent to europe by the american jockies but it said the expenses attending the outfits c al ! vays amounted to more than his win nings he was raised in massachu setts : cr rather he was born there for he was trained in europe having gone to that country when but eleven years old and remained there many years under the guidance of some roy al grooms the jackson is a tall slim horse ; but of mighty bone and bold em prise he is moreover exceedingly spirited and high mettled in his own state tennessee he has run with wonderful success ; never having lost a race there or elsewhere but it is the splendid victory which he obtained over the noted british horse the pack enhatm on the orleans turf on the 8th january 1815 which has given him such distinguished reputation â€” the i i ackenham was a full blooded courser â€” akin to the invincible wel lington who beat the far famed napo leon on the field of waterloo the packenham was expressly picked by the british king from amongst his whole stud and sent to the orleans turf expressly to encounter an ameri can horse yet the jackson distanced him the first round it is universally admitted even by the knowing ones of england that the jackson ran that race in exceeding quick time the jackson hns also beaten the creek the seminole and the florida horses of some note the crawford is a tall majestic figure with wonderful bone muscle and sinew his tread firm and indi cative of great strength and activity he sprung from the old virginia stock ot racers one of the best strains in these united states vide the amer ican racing calendar titles washing ton jefferson madison and monroe j when young he was taken to geor gia and there occasionally ran a hw cider races successfully when his ow ners emboldened at his success ven tured to enter him in the state jockey club where he defeated the favorite horse of georgia although often oppo sed by that dare devil the john clark a nagot some distinction in that quar ter who has lately however become spavined splinted and string halted â€” it is singular that the supporters of all the other nags vied in their abuse of this horse and his performances such are the characters ofthe horses which paraded on the day of trial all of tkem had acquired reputation in their provincial racing but how they would play their parts when opposed to each other on the great theatre of the national turf was all doubt and darkness bets were various and the vociferations of praise from the friends of the respective nags were boisterous and constant the shrewd yankee was ready to risk his whole crop of onions together with the fruits of his year's toil in the cod fishery on his favorite adams hundreds of the sons of old kentucky were around the clay who made the " welkin ring with their shouts they said he was half horse half alligator and tip eel with the snapping-turtle nay they avowed " he was a very stÂ«em boat a mississippi sawyer they swore '* he was the best horse on the turf and that they could out run out jump out shoot throw down or whip any man or set of men who dared to contradict them from thence they were to run through out the whole twenty*four states the beating of the drums announced that the hour for the riders to mount hafl arrived the rattling of this in strutnent f war electrified old hick ory it was to the same music he ran when he tried his speed with the pack enham he pricked up his ears bow ed his neck champed his bit and car ried loftily but this note of war greatly affrighted the adams whose spirits are always startled at wild war's deadly blast and his friends were greatly shocked at sounds so offensive to the feelings of a peaceable and reli gious people the editor ofthe national gazette was selected as the rider ofthe adams who has acquired some distinction both in this country and in britain as a rider his system of political horse manship partakes more of the english than of the american mode and it is moreover said he is quite capri cious in relation to his tenets al ternately the votary of ' doctrines fashioned to the varying hour he mounted his candidate for dominion ; and the richness and the gaudioess of his dress filled the people with amaze ment he was clothed in purple and on his head he wore a cap shaped like a crown ; and attached to this crown floated in the air two ensigns impres sed with appropriate mottos â€” the one however was soon tied up ; the other rattled in the wind and displayed this inscription * we are all federalists â€” we are all republicans /' it was how ever whispered about that this was the same flag which the adams carried when he run in massachusetts under the fictious name of publicola ; and it was apparent that the ground of the ensign had beea newly painted that the old inscription had been brushed out and this new one substituted in its stead rip rap rock which almost frustrated the frisky rider the gallant war horse jackson was led to the polls the editor of thp columbian observer officiated as his principal attend mt though his assist ance had been previously given to clay he was rode by the editor of the nashville gazette who owing to ( tv -^ spirit of his steed was mounted with out whip or spur he wore an eld continental three cornered cocked hatj with ensigns pendant in which were inscribed * camden tahoopka new orleans the clay folks ungenerous ly endeavored to fasten to his croup a heavy southern mineral railed arbutk not which however the noble animal shook off entirely before he started next l in gallant trim was man shalled at the polls the lofty crawford his undaunted air perfect figure and agile tread called forth the plaudits of the great assemblage the editor of the national advocate the famous new york keeper the same who last year lamed and pricked the clinton led the crawford to the polls the editor of the enquirer a lad bred in the best virginia stables was seated en his back in his dress were blended the fashions of the white man and of the irdian on his flag glared in large capitals i state rights < e conomy republicanism of ninety-eight and in the back ground a painting a representa tion of an encounter in which the bow of cupid overcomes the scalping knife ofthe savage designed as an emblem of the new mode of inculcating civili zation by means ofthe pleasant process of intermarriages he carried neither scourge nor goad his enemies thurst under his saddle large bundles of misstated treasury reports suppressed documents c but his riderÂ»with he slight of hocus pocus freed himself from these incum brances they attempted too to point out a speck of federalism which they said had attached itself to him but it was bedizzened by the resplended dap pies of republicanism which pervaded his whole body the competitors were at length mar shalled at the post the judges gave the word â€” go ! a hurra ! was shouu ed by the multitude and off dashed the gallants an empire the prize they started in the state of maine through which state there were two tracts ; viz : the missouri tract and the maine tract the crawford western carolinian will i payable yearly in a distance will be discon has expired for which it ss the subscriber is known er case die paper will be ordered to be stopt be inserted at fifty cents insertion and twenty-five ent one advertisements 3e paid for or their pay esponsible person before to the editor must be t be attended to 0r9e race allegorical article on lidential election has vhich the lovers of coarse to dwell â€” as its notoriety ar and its reputed wit hear-say eclat that nei nt evinced in the piece e have been importuned past not only by those prompts them to say ome flattery with which over by those 1 like cringe around his ' of those good-natured ivho mean no narm and . whole enjoyment is de term good fun â€” we dish it the reader will is worth the writer of thomas h fletcher of a solicitor f one of tbe it state he is a native mr crawford ; this may ; the crawtord out anead id slandering the other ecome a fashionable day whether it be ms or politicians i en to amuse the iov ie details of a splen stakes which i re noah one of the crawford jockies a keen lynx-eyed fellow was seen to gaze slyly yet intently at this ancient banner hinted that vestiges of the an cient writings were visible j a trans ctipt of which be ingf submitted to that burrower after antiquities dr mitch ell he produced the true and original reading to be thus : * huzza for the alien and sedition laws ! * standing armies and direct taxes p the ri der carried in his hand a whip made of a certain timber called * direct taxes admirably calculated for scourging the adams carried heavy weight fas tened upon him by the opposing grooms consisting of huge masses of federalism and aristocracy it was thought those burdens would not great ly impede his progress in passing over the dry sandy soil of the new england states ; but it was believed they would cause him to stick fast in the deep rich and loamy grounds ofthe west he was led to the starting post by a federalist of the boston turf the clay was mounted by one ofthe people a rough hardy kentuckian dressed in a linsy-woolsy hunting shirt fastened around him a coarse leath ern belt with deer skin mocka ains with ' a blue and white cotton handkerchief tied round his head he earried a whip a mere twig cut from the tree persuasion his bridle reins were made of the people's will he too unfurled an ensign which bore * western states and the mississippi the only extra weight which the clay carried consisted of an old dirty pack of cards heretofore much used but apparently long since thrown by which the adams jockies thurstinto the girdle of his rider a faint uproar of approbation was occasionally heard from the friends of the calhoun but it was a dying sound the georgians and virginians were loud in their plaudits they offered to stake piles of old virginia sweet seen ted and georgia uplands on the craw ford the yankees looked with a yearning eye at the hogsheads and bales and sinned most heniously in their hearts against that command ment which forbids the coveting of their neighbor's property the jackson had about him some staunch friends though few in lumber they talked of the ever glorious eighth and swore " by the deeds he had done that he " was the horse of horses tounced by the stew tiat agreeably to the : constitution of the certain day a jocky ! run over the united for the entrance oi ing mares being ex e or gelding being a ited states and aged or over the dis i the turf the course ole twenty four uci tieiica the weight the horses nothing loquy which the re each cftuld throw up hc others the en he purse the reward am furnished by the liberty cap which in ful candidate with the se united states for rears from and after promptly selected the missouri route which he steadily pursued and at the onset ran far ahead of the adams who had lost much time in temporizing ia first trying the advantages 01 one track and then of the other to catch the the adams had been long in train ing he had been long under the care of two famous sporting associations called the " essex junto and " hart ford convention whose system of training was fashioned after the english plan the clay was trained chiefly in ken tucky amongst the people and rubbed down occasionally by the friends of s american independence and the mis sissippi boatmen some dutch waggoners in pennsyl vania had the keeping of the calhoun who stuffed him with rye straw and wheat bran ; a sort of food that mere ly tended to puff him up without in vigorating him with any real strength the jackson might be said to be without keepers ; at least he had none of experienced professional skill his backers said he was always at the service of the jocky club â€” that he required no keeping and that he was always ready if the people should think fit to start him no studied preparation had therefore been made and he came up on the ground full and rough relying on his native strength unaided by the skill of the jockies the crawford was in famous plight he was first managed by some geor gia jockies he was thence taken to the old dominion where he was again looked after by some of the old grooms of ninety-eight : the same who had trained the jefferson when he beat t'other adams mordecai noah of new-york also " ever and anon took him through a course of exercise the state of maine was selected as the starting post there on the ap pointed day the candidates met > and most popular breeze at length hav ing gotten into the current he spread all his canvas and then ensued a vig orous contest between the crawford and the adams which however re suited in the supremacy of the latter throughout new-hampshhc the a dams continued to lead the van the same success continued to attend him as he onwards passed over vermont 5 but as they dashed along the green mountains the old warriors of the revolution shouted zejlmisly for old hickory who made a run at the a dams under this cheering but ineffec tually massachusetts was next en tered ; the adams far ahe?d here the rider of the adams unfurled his as to the calhoun he is a mere colt scarcely bridle wise his for mer performance had given him no re putationâ€”and the knowing ones were astonished at the rashness of his keep ers in placing him in competition with such tried speed and bottom he is tis true a sprightly lively looking colt but he has not one of the marks or points of first rate his backers frequently indicated a disposi tion to withdraw him and venture their funds on the adams ; but in their councils " madness ruled the hour and he appeared upon the course a can didate for dominion , 1825 wofthe prize pro vt and excitement ; lu the turf would be distinguished racers indeed for a long he day of trial the e incessant in their d coursers in this con the day of entrance ks were closed the heretofore concealed banner which dis played ' the hartford convention j and amongst those people who have so long cried * england is the bulwark of our religion the effect which these talismanic words produced was pro digious faneuil hall resounded withv cheers throughout thc adams led ndidates were alone to wit the adamj clay the calhoun d n b it is said m of new torkâ€”~2i elebrity would have lot some of the jock , last year wilfully a ' western citizen conducted the clay to the polls who merrily chanted as he led him up the clay is an airy supple-jointed fellow of bright and cheerful counte nance he comes from the backwoods of kentucky where he has run with such success at county gatherings that in that state he has no competitor in 1814 he ran at ghent where some american horses and among others the adams were matched against the steeds of old england and success crowded the heels of the americans it is thought by some that the adams did not on that occasion iguuntain the interests ofthe whole american sports men j but that he ran only for the cape cod jockies the western sportsmen had liked to have lost their all by him and wottld^but for the clay my bonny brave horse is come out ofthe west and in all the great valley tlie steed is the best a square built mynheer of pennsyl vania led the calhoun to the charge who pitched upon his back a mere catch the editor of the franklin ga zette as his rider the little groom was almostweigheddownby applauses sashes lace buttons embroidery and plumes he wore a fierce chapeau to which was affixed a golden plate with this inscription â€” * lhe army candi date twas cruel to oppress this yearling with additional weight ; bul an unfeeling crawford jockey thrust into the knapsack of the rider a huge the way once however he was suddenly checked in his career on the plains of lexington by the shade of those whi^s whose bones are bleaching on those fields they essayed to tear from tha gown ef his rider the traitorous ensign which he had just unfurls the state of the turf in this stare seemed happily fitted for the success ful progress of the adams whilst the other nags rode on a soil peculiarly heavy to republican hoofs no change was noticed in their pro gress through rhodclslandj but as they reached the confines df connect reader to enter ful t which this contest a brief sketch of the rmances of the five a horse of illustrious vas begotten by the idams who run with ted applause during war and although in the latter part of much from that high itation which his ear

wsothibh bjlib(d!limhair 1 salisbury n c tuesday september 16 1823 no 171 iy success had acquired for himâ€”hav ing been in old age beaten and distanc ed by the pride of virginia that matchless courser the jefferson still he was unquestionably a horse of no mean prowess the friend of the old adams however attributed the defeat which he received at the hands of the jefferson to bad keeping and threw the blame on one of his grooms na med hamilton but wholly without au thority for the jefferson was evident ly his superior but jockies you know are fruitful in excuses when ill fortune attends their nags the high blood of the adams seems to have been more sanguinely relied on than either his figure or his previous per formances for he is an obese st ut buttocked animal and his excellence in racidg partakes not of downright turf running such as we now speak of but rather oi the light airy ambling of the p>-gasus breed it is with difficulty he can be kept in the track so much is he addicted to bolting he displayed his propensity in this way in the vear 1807 when running against some horses called the republican over the course called the senate he suddenly reareu plunged and kicked up â€” threw off his rider one otis whom he re ! peatedly stamped and forthwith dash ! cd into a rich green clover field that bordered the margin of the course i where he has ever since remained grazing on the fat ofthe land his sire was also veiiemently addicted to this practice of bolting the adams has been frequently sent to europe by the american jockies but it said the expenses attending the outfits c al ! vays amounted to more than his win nings he was raised in massachu setts : cr rather he was born there for he was trained in europe having gone to that country when but eleven years old and remained there many years under the guidance of some roy al grooms the jackson is a tall slim horse ; but of mighty bone and bold em prise he is moreover exceedingly spirited and high mettled in his own state tennessee he has run with wonderful success ; never having lost a race there or elsewhere but it is the splendid victory which he obtained over the noted british horse the pack enhatm on the orleans turf on the 8th january 1815 which has given him such distinguished reputation â€” the i i ackenham was a full blooded courser â€” akin to the invincible wel lington who beat the far famed napo leon on the field of waterloo the packenham was expressly picked by the british king from amongst his whole stud and sent to the orleans turf expressly to encounter an ameri can horse yet the jackson distanced him the first round it is universally admitted even by the knowing ones of england that the jackson ran that race in exceeding quick time the jackson hns also beaten the creek the seminole and the florida horses of some note the crawford is a tall majestic figure with wonderful bone muscle and sinew his tread firm and indi cative of great strength and activity he sprung from the old virginia stock ot racers one of the best strains in these united states vide the amer ican racing calendar titles washing ton jefferson madison and monroe j when young he was taken to geor gia and there occasionally ran a hw cider races successfully when his ow ners emboldened at his success ven tured to enter him in the state jockey club where he defeated the favorite horse of georgia although often oppo sed by that dare devil the john clark a nagot some distinction in that quar ter who has lately however become spavined splinted and string halted â€” it is singular that the supporters of all the other nags vied in their abuse of this horse and his performances such are the characters ofthe horses which paraded on the day of trial all of tkem had acquired reputation in their provincial racing but how they would play their parts when opposed to each other on the great theatre of the national turf was all doubt and darkness bets were various and the vociferations of praise from the friends of the respective nags were boisterous and constant the shrewd yankee was ready to risk his whole crop of onions together with the fruits of his year's toil in the cod fishery on his favorite adams hundreds of the sons of old kentucky were around the clay who made the " welkin ring with their shouts they said he was half horse half alligator and tip eel with the snapping-turtle nay they avowed " he was a very stÂ«em boat a mississippi sawyer they swore '* he was the best horse on the turf and that they could out run out jump out shoot throw down or whip any man or set of men who dared to contradict them from thence they were to run through out the whole twenty*four states the beating of the drums announced that the hour for the riders to mount hafl arrived the rattling of this in strutnent f war electrified old hick ory it was to the same music he ran when he tried his speed with the pack enham he pricked up his ears bow ed his neck champed his bit and car ried loftily but this note of war greatly affrighted the adams whose spirits are always startled at wild war's deadly blast and his friends were greatly shocked at sounds so offensive to the feelings of a peaceable and reli gious people the editor ofthe national gazette was selected as the rider ofthe adams who has acquired some distinction both in this country and in britain as a rider his system of political horse manship partakes more of the english than of the american mode and it is moreover said he is quite capri cious in relation to his tenets al ternately the votary of ' doctrines fashioned to the varying hour he mounted his candidate for dominion ; and the richness and the gaudioess of his dress filled the people with amaze ment he was clothed in purple and on his head he wore a cap shaped like a crown ; and attached to this crown floated in the air two ensigns impres sed with appropriate mottos â€” the one however was soon tied up ; the other rattled in the wind and displayed this inscription * we are all federalists â€” we are all republicans /' it was how ever whispered about that this was the same flag which the adams carried when he run in massachusetts under the fictious name of publicola ; and it was apparent that the ground of the ensign had beea newly painted that the old inscription had been brushed out and this new one substituted in its stead rip rap rock which almost frustrated the frisky rider the gallant war horse jackson was led to the polls the editor of thp columbian observer officiated as his principal attend mt though his assist ance had been previously given to clay he was rode by the editor of the nashville gazette who owing to ( tv -^ spirit of his steed was mounted with out whip or spur he wore an eld continental three cornered cocked hatj with ensigns pendant in which were inscribed * camden tahoopka new orleans the clay folks ungenerous ly endeavored to fasten to his croup a heavy southern mineral railed arbutk not which however the noble animal shook off entirely before he started next l in gallant trim was man shalled at the polls the lofty crawford his undaunted air perfect figure and agile tread called forth the plaudits of the great assemblage the editor of the national advocate the famous new york keeper the same who last year lamed and pricked the clinton led the crawford to the polls the editor of the enquirer a lad bred in the best virginia stables was seated en his back in his dress were blended the fashions of the white man and of the irdian on his flag glared in large capitals i state rights < e conomy republicanism of ninety-eight and in the back ground a painting a representa tion of an encounter in which the bow of cupid overcomes the scalping knife ofthe savage designed as an emblem of the new mode of inculcating civili zation by means ofthe pleasant process of intermarriages he carried neither scourge nor goad his enemies thurst under his saddle large bundles of misstated treasury reports suppressed documents c but his riderÂ»with he slight of hocus pocus freed himself from these incum brances they attempted too to point out a speck of federalism which they said had attached itself to him but it was bedizzened by the resplended dap pies of republicanism which pervaded his whole body the competitors were at length mar shalled at the post the judges gave the word â€” go ! a hurra ! was shouu ed by the multitude and off dashed the gallants an empire the prize they started in the state of maine through which state there were two tracts ; viz : the missouri tract and the maine tract the crawford western carolinian will i payable yearly in a distance will be discon has expired for which it ss the subscriber is known er case die paper will be ordered to be stopt be inserted at fifty cents insertion and twenty-five ent one advertisements 3e paid for or their pay esponsible person before to the editor must be t be attended to 0r9e race allegorical article on lidential election has vhich the lovers of coarse to dwell â€” as its notoriety ar and its reputed wit hear-say eclat that nei nt evinced in the piece e have been importuned past not only by those prompts them to say ome flattery with which over by those 1 like cringe around his ' of those good-natured ivho mean no narm and . whole enjoyment is de term good fun â€” we dish it the reader will is worth the writer of thomas h fletcher of a solicitor f one of tbe it state he is a native mr crawford ; this may ; the crawtord out anead id slandering the other ecome a fashionable day whether it be ms or politicians i en to amuse the iov ie details of a splen stakes which i re noah one of the crawford jockies a keen lynx-eyed fellow was seen to gaze slyly yet intently at this ancient banner hinted that vestiges of the an cient writings were visible j a trans ctipt of which be ingf submitted to that burrower after antiquities dr mitch ell he produced the true and original reading to be thus : * huzza for the alien and sedition laws ! * standing armies and direct taxes p the ri der carried in his hand a whip made of a certain timber called * direct taxes admirably calculated for scourging the adams carried heavy weight fas tened upon him by the opposing grooms consisting of huge masses of federalism and aristocracy it was thought those burdens would not great ly impede his progress in passing over the dry sandy soil of the new england states ; but it was believed they would cause him to stick fast in the deep rich and loamy grounds ofthe west he was led to the starting post by a federalist of the boston turf the clay was mounted by one ofthe people a rough hardy kentuckian dressed in a linsy-woolsy hunting shirt fastened around him a coarse leath ern belt with deer skin mocka ains with ' a blue and white cotton handkerchief tied round his head he earried a whip a mere twig cut from the tree persuasion his bridle reins were made of the people's will he too unfurled an ensign which bore * western states and the mississippi the only extra weight which the clay carried consisted of an old dirty pack of cards heretofore much used but apparently long since thrown by which the adams jockies thurstinto the girdle of his rider a faint uproar of approbation was occasionally heard from the friends of the calhoun but it was a dying sound the georgians and virginians were loud in their plaudits they offered to stake piles of old virginia sweet seen ted and georgia uplands on the craw ford the yankees looked with a yearning eye at the hogsheads and bales and sinned most heniously in their hearts against that command ment which forbids the coveting of their neighbor's property the jackson had about him some staunch friends though few in lumber they talked of the ever glorious eighth and swore " by the deeds he had done that he " was the horse of horses tounced by the stew tiat agreeably to the : constitution of the certain day a jocky ! run over the united for the entrance oi ing mares being ex e or gelding being a ited states and aged or over the dis i the turf the course ole twenty four uci tieiica the weight the horses nothing loquy which the re each cftuld throw up hc others the en he purse the reward am furnished by the liberty cap which in ful candidate with the se united states for rears from and after promptly selected the missouri route which he steadily pursued and at the onset ran far ahead of the adams who had lost much time in temporizing ia first trying the advantages 01 one track and then of the other to catch the the adams had been long in train ing he had been long under the care of two famous sporting associations called the " essex junto and " hart ford convention whose system of training was fashioned after the english plan the clay was trained chiefly in ken tucky amongst the people and rubbed down occasionally by the friends of s american independence and the mis sissippi boatmen some dutch waggoners in pennsyl vania had the keeping of the calhoun who stuffed him with rye straw and wheat bran ; a sort of food that mere ly tended to puff him up without in vigorating him with any real strength the jackson might be said to be without keepers ; at least he had none of experienced professional skill his backers said he was always at the service of the jocky club â€” that he required no keeping and that he was always ready if the people should think fit to start him no studied preparation had therefore been made and he came up on the ground full and rough relying on his native strength unaided by the skill of the jockies the crawford was in famous plight he was first managed by some geor gia jockies he was thence taken to the old dominion where he was again looked after by some of the old grooms of ninety-eight : the same who had trained the jefferson when he beat t'other adams mordecai noah of new-york also " ever and anon took him through a course of exercise the state of maine was selected as the starting post there on the ap pointed day the candidates met > and most popular breeze at length hav ing gotten into the current he spread all his canvas and then ensued a vig orous contest between the crawford and the adams which however re suited in the supremacy of the latter throughout new-hampshhc the a dams continued to lead the van the same success continued to attend him as he onwards passed over vermont 5 but as they dashed along the green mountains the old warriors of the revolution shouted zejlmisly for old hickory who made a run at the a dams under this cheering but ineffec tually massachusetts was next en tered ; the adams far ahe?d here the rider of the adams unfurled his as to the calhoun he is a mere colt scarcely bridle wise his for mer performance had given him no re putationâ€”and the knowing ones were astonished at the rashness of his keep ers in placing him in competition with such tried speed and bottom he is tis true a sprightly lively looking colt but he has not one of the marks or points of first rate his backers frequently indicated a disposi tion to withdraw him and venture their funds on the adams ; but in their councils " madness ruled the hour and he appeared upon the course a can didate for dominion , 1825 wofthe prize pro vt and excitement ; lu the turf would be distinguished racers indeed for a long he day of trial the e incessant in their d coursers in this con the day of entrance ks were closed the heretofore concealed banner which dis played ' the hartford convention j and amongst those people who have so long cried * england is the bulwark of our religion the effect which these talismanic words produced was pro digious faneuil hall resounded withv cheers throughout thc adams led ndidates were alone to wit the adamj clay the calhoun d n b it is said m of new torkâ€”~2i elebrity would have lot some of the jock , last year wilfully a ' western citizen conducted the clay to the polls who merrily chanted as he led him up the clay is an airy supple-jointed fellow of bright and cheerful counte nance he comes from the backwoods of kentucky where he has run with such success at county gatherings that in that state he has no competitor in 1814 he ran at ghent where some american horses and among others the adams were matched against the steeds of old england and success crowded the heels of the americans it is thought by some that the adams did not on that occasion iguuntain the interests ofthe whole american sports men j but that he ran only for the cape cod jockies the western sportsmen had liked to have lost their all by him and wottld^but for the clay my bonny brave horse is come out ofthe west and in all the great valley tlie steed is the best a square built mynheer of pennsyl vania led the calhoun to the charge who pitched upon his back a mere catch the editor of the franklin ga zette as his rider the little groom was almostweigheddownby applauses sashes lace buttons embroidery and plumes he wore a fierce chapeau to which was affixed a golden plate with this inscription â€” * lhe army candi date twas cruel to oppress this yearling with additional weight ; bul an unfeeling crawford jockey thrust into the knapsack of the rider a huge the way once however he was suddenly checked in his career on the plains of lexington by the shade of those whi^s whose bones are bleaching on those fields they essayed to tear from tha gown ef his rider the traitorous ensign which he had just unfurls the state of the turf in this stare seemed happily fitted for the success ful progress of the adams whilst the other nags rode on a soil peculiarly heavy to republican hoofs no change was noticed in their pro gress through rhodclslandj but as they reached the confines df connect reader to enter ful t which this contest a brief sketch of the rmances of the five a horse of illustrious vas begotten by the idams who run with ted applause during war and although in the latter part of much from that high itation which his ear